Stop by your local library, and you may find an art exhibition. St. Agnes Library in Manhattan invites area artists like Peter Salwen to display their work for a month at a time, in the gracious stairwell leading to the second floor. "I think there's a sense in which art does have a natural place in the library," Pete says. "It adds the experience of having potentially an audience out there who come by, and look at my work, and find something in it that speaks to them."

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